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i'm installing win2000. i booted from cd, bios finds both drives, everything seems normal. win2000 setup starts up, begins to loads files it needs. after loading files, right before the actual install begins i get a message the 2000 can't find any installed hard drives. it tells me to check …

When i open a page on the internet i cant close it, either by clicking on the x or right clicking and chossing close, alot of other pages open as well and ive had to install a pop up blocker, anyone know why these pages wont close? to close them …

Just a quick question if i go into regedit is it safe to delete the links that lead to uninstalled software because there is a list of them that belong to applications that have long gone thx

i ran a adaware scan a few days ago then came back and updated it and WHOA! 138 something files found and i got this message when i tried to clean it up what should i do?

i just did a fresh install of xp pro and i have less free space thann befor the install.its a fresh install where i deleted the old partition.before the fresh install i had 27.8 of free space now i have 26.2 help!!!

Ok, just when I thought I could tackle pretty much any problem that came my way I get one that leaves me scratching my head... Internet Explorer, Mozilla both display gifs incorrectly. The weird thing is they aren't just displaying them incorrectly, they aren't receiving or saving them properly. I …

I'm opening myself up I suppose, but is the firewall in your router not enough to cover most drop-ins. Thanks, BuddyB

For apparently no reason when I click for a new page IE just goes away. I clicked on the chat button and IE dropped out. I clicked a page at eBay and IE dropped out. This has just started. I have all the updates. Anything I can do about this? …

i ran a video card test that came with the software to my video card and it said it passed the test for directx9 but it says i dont have directx 8.1 should i install or doesnt it matter?

I have recently ditched IE6 in favour of mozilla which i find a lot better but the question i have is this i have been using tweak xp to delete cookies and temp files cache historys but have noticed that it only seems to be configured for IE6 as its …

Yea I need some help I've run spybot, adaware, and norton. I have a hijack log if you want to see it then ask. Still however, I leave my comp and come back to find the same pop ups everytime.

Hello all. Right, how do I permanently delete the 'links' section in my favourites dropdown menu?..I HATE IT AND SO I DELETE IT,BUT IT ALWAYS COMES BACK TO GET ME

An easy question for all you in the know guys. I have an MSI MS-6318 motherboard which has SDRAM installed. How can I find out if it will take DDRRAM? TIA.

Dear Techies, Well, My internet explorer(v.6) for some inexplicable reason seems to be shutting down by itself. After i load the explorer, i roughly get 10 seconds before it dissappears. I am running Norton Internet Security 2004, XP pro and P4 2.6 with 1GB RAM, please help as i can't …

Hi techtalk members - first time poster. I've got a problem today in that the address bar is not opening on my i.e. 6.0 toolbar. [img]http://www.ladormida.com/images/address.gif[/img] As per the above you can see it but you can't move it / open it and therefore I can't type in urls directly …

My computer config is P-IV 1.7 Ghz 512 MB Ram it started dunno how - but i located blaster worm in my pc - and installed fixblast from symantec removed it - and it was running fine. but than my computer started to freeze every 5-10 minutes. I formatted my …

Hi. First post and just need a little direction. I currently have a PIII 500 machine with win98se. My primary drive is 40 gb and I also have a second drive (60 gb). I'm wanting to do a clean install of win2000 completely replacing win98. I've backed up everything to …

O.S Win 98. Just downloaded Internet Explorer 6 a couple weeks ago and cant enable java chat rooms now. When I try to log on to most chat rooms I get no error message except a colored square,circle,triangle inside a bigger square. I checked internet options -advanced section and java …

I'm completely frustrated. I signed up to broadband for the first time last november. Since then i've had may problems with multimedia flash pop ups. The one that my 2pop up blockers fail to erradicate is 'Top Searches On The Web'. It actually goes out of it's way to click …

MY NETWORK CARD, FUCKS UP MY PRINTER . WHEN I TRY TO PRINT SOMETHING ON MY Lexmark 5700, HE SAYS THE PRINTER IS OFFLINE !!!AND I AIN

this just came up on my friends computer, any idea as to what it is?

So I was playing Warcraft 3 Frozen Throne and then suddenly my screen turned black and i landed up on my desktop with this error message : (now this message has never appeared before) [img]http://afdrano.150m.com/war3error.jpg[/img][img]http://afdrano.gq.nu/war3error.jpg[/img] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Also, I click my start button and i notice what programs are below my …

Hello, trying to find a solution for my problem in google, I found this page - great:) but the problem still exists:cry: OK. This page is no problem for my IE6 on XP Pro. Also not the german [url="http://www.herber.de/"]www.herber.de[/url], [url="http://www.spotlight.de/"]www.spotlight.de[/url]. They work fine. But [url="http://www.spiegel.de/"]www.spiegel.de[/url] or [url="http://www.rp-online.de/"]www.rp-online.de[/url] are making trouble. …

:( For some reason my computer is just lagging in all areas right now. It works, just slowly. My 512 MB of RAM is working at 13% right now. Most of the lag occurs when alt tabbing or starting a new program. Comp Specs: - 2.4 Ghz P4 Processor - …

[left][font=Arial][size=3]Hi all,[/size][/font][/left] [left][font=Arial][size=3]i basically face a problem concerning a WinMe installation in my old laptop[/size][/font][/left] [left][font=Arial][size=3](IBM Thinkpad 380z) which has a [color=red]broken floppy[/color]. As u might have already undestood i cant install WinMe cause i cant boot from floppy:-| . Furthemore i cant find a bootable WinMe cd or make …

All folders on desktop that point to c:/documents and settings, do not open. The pointer will turn to an hour glass then revert back to a pointer. If I create a new folder I will not be able to open it, all aftermarket program folders work fine. I am not …

This looked kind of weird, and what was in it was weird too.

I just thought i'd like to put this out there because i've been looking for something like it for a while. [url]http://www.answersthatwork.com/Tasklist_pages/tasklist.htm[/url] is a web site that tells you what all the programs running in your task manager are. Of course it doesnt have things for programs and software you …

Hello all! I have a problem with a folder that keeps on freezing up. Whenever I'm just clicking on that folder or just highlighting it, the whole folder freezes up. I have to wait for like a minute for the freeze to be over, from there then I can access …

What exactly are UDP packets? They often come up in netplay of video games, I know that much.

[font=Verdana, Arial][size=2]Having a major problem with a computer. It began for about a month ago, it started doing minor freezes for 1-2seconds, mostly in games at that time. But a few days it took a turn to the worse and began freezing up in windows whenever I tried to open …

Is the name of the trojan. Please help me get it out of my system. AVG Anti-Virus which i downloaded (free one) today found it, but it couldn't "heal" it, all it said was 'Action Failed.' So how do I get rid of this? I'm right now scanning my computer …

:sad: Okay Here is the problem!!!!! I had someone rebuild my computer for me. Everything inside is new. He installed Windows 98. After having problems with that we tried to install Windows Xp and that never happened, could not install, had errors coming up. Thought the hard drive was bad. …

I have a fairly new Sanyo 20" flat screen and it has an s-video input in the back. I also have a Presario 2100 Laptop also quite new with s-video in back. When I connect my laptop to the T.V. via s-video cable the most I can get from the …

Hey, today someone named Eliza5021 IM'ed me, and said hey i wanna chat. i said whose this? then they said something which I forget, then i said what? because what he said didnt make sense, then he said one mans trash is another mans treasure (your computer for example). about …

What's up with this? I don't know, but recently this box has been appearing whenever i try to reboot. It gives me a box that tells me this dialog is ending and it gives me the option to end task, so even if i dont end task the result is …

ok i know where to get themes now but do i have to have a program that is constantly running in order for the theme to stay or is there no way around that?

I just registered for this forum, to find out help on how to solve my problem with cpu usage overloading. My computer has been fine until about 3 days ago. It started getting real laggy, and my internet speed dropped majorly. When i open up (WTM) i see that SVCHOST.EXE …

Hi i'm new! Got a problem that maybe someone can help me with. When XP starts it takes about 60seconds before I can run any programs. Any help would be great, this is a really annoying problem. My machine is almost new specs below - It is a fresh install …

My hardware: Soyo K7ADA V1.0 motherboard with Ali MAGiK1 Chipset with USB on the chip itself. Amd 2000+ processor 256mb ddr ram Lexmark Z32 Printer Don't think anything else is going to be of importance.... I'm running win xp pro. I just formatted and reinstalled windows and now it doesn't …

Hi Techies, My win 2000 sp4 1.6 512MB 40GB machine is slow to respond. I have done every tweak available. when I click a menu it takes awhile to respond. any help appriciated = Carmine = :rolleyes: ps hi Dani

:cry: Like when im at google or whatever, when I type in "a" it will show everything I have ever looked for that started with "a" and the same with everything. I think its slowing my internet down but even if its not is there anyway I can remove this? …

I have got a problem trying to boot up an xp machine. I get the following message but does not matter what I choose it just goes back to the same thing [color=blue]We apologize for the inconvience, but Windows did not start sucessfully. A recent hardware or software change might …

ZoneAlarm blocked ICQSRP.exe from accessing the internet. I can't seem to find out what this does or what it's for. Any help? Do I need add This to my Zone Alarm Program icqSRP?

iam on a dialup connection through aol.and i have a aol email.and a hotmail account.what i would like to know is if i can setup a outlook express acount.and if i can.a step by step would be much appreciated.thanks...........

does enyone know of a way to change the icons in your favorites list in i.e 6.i want to change them fron the blue E icon.eny help would be appreciated.. oops i didnt read the post ontill after i posted here.if i could move it i would sorry about that.............

hi all, im a newbie admin here at work... i'm planning to setup a win2003 server. primarily a file server + a domain server... i have no idea on what to do, can anybody here help me or at least give me some pointers on how to start it... is …

in my winxp-pro 2 admin accounts one works perfect but the other have a problem . which is that it opens sites that only writen in the address bar and can't open any link in the page (i can open yahoo but can't access any lnk in the page). this …

i've been trying to get msn 6.1 to work on my computer, and i've downloaded it more than 6 times. however every time i run it, it closes itself after a couple of seconds while it is still signing in, or when i'm signed in. even worse, after 2 or …

i was wondering how to tell what version of directx my system has, and if i should get directx9.1 or whatever the newwest version is